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 * **Description of the Approach**
 * Include main tenets, assumptions, and process steps of the approach and leading proponents or researcher
 * This approach is called the Scientific Model.
 * The procedures for curriculum planning, which Bobbitt referred to as job analysis, began with the identification of the specific activities that adults undertook in fulfilling their various occupational, citizenship, family, and other social roles. The resulting activities were to be the objectives of the curriculum. The curriculum itself, Bobbitt noted, was comprised of the school experiences that educators constructed to enable children to attain these objectives. (Education Encyclopedia)
 * Some of these objectives were general and represented the knowledge that all children needed to prepare for their responsibilities as adult citizens.
 * Other objectives are more specific and constituted the skills that youth needed to prepare for the array of specialized occupations that adults held in modern society.
 * This approach is based on the idea of a general education for all youth, and then specialized by vocation.
 * It was believed that children should be assessed on intellectual abilities, and then assigned to vocations.
 * Other educators that worked with Bobbitt included W. W. Charters, Ross L. Finney, Charles C. Peters, and David Snedden.
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 * **Strategies and Ideas for Implementation**Possible topics:
 * What strategies have you read about that support the successful integration of this approach?
 * If you have experience working with the approach, describe possible challenges and benefits of implementing the approach.
 * What should leaders of curriculum development consider when implementing this approach?